Sunday Repeat

Last Sunday's drive to Sakonnet Purls and Gray's Ice Cream was so enjoyable that we did it again this week. With Rove knitting up quickly, I was starting to think ahead about my next project. I settled on one with Rowan Summer Tweed. It's so hard on my fingers, but I do like the fabric it makes. Anyway, there was a shortage of Summer Tweed colors and skeins at Sakonnet Purls, so I was not able to get the amount I wanted, though I was able to get one of my top color choices. There were 5 remaining skeins of 'rush'. I started winding them up on the drive home and here is one ball shown nestled in my sage plant in the pic.

My plan was to get enough skeins for Lull, from the new Studio 15 book I got last weekend, but I will need to do an online order instead. In the meantime, I will use today's yarn to make the tank top from the Summer Tweed Collection pattern book, though I had hoped to do it in a different color. Maybe I still will use a different color too, one can't really have too many tanks in summer time.

Although I could make this other top from the Studio book with the yarn I got today, I really think I'd want a different color for it, either the raffia shown in the pic, or something dark.

I got a ton of yard work done yesterday and particularly enjoyed the mowing with all the flowers to look at as I went around and around the yard. I cut back the out of control property border shrubs to the south and dragged the trimmings to a new burn pile. Saffy and Silas enjoyed 'helping' me, but did not figure out that the branches were supposed to be piled in one place, not dragged all over!

Here's a picture of daisies blooming by the back door/patio. They are sunny, even when the sky is cloudy like it was much of today.